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The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit: Create Amazing Web-based Games with JavaScript and HTML5
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The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit: Create Amazing Web-based Games with JavaScript and HTML5

by Rex van der Spuy
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
193 pages
4h 46m
English
Apress
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© Rex van der Spuy 2017

Rex van der Spuy, The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1097-0_1

1. Getting Started

Rex van der Spuy1 

(1)Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Welcome to the HTML5 game designers toolkit! This book is an essential guide to the most useful techniques you need to know for making a wide range of 2D action games. It covers classic development practices, tools, algorithms, and architectures, including the following:

  • How to use Tiled Editor to design game levels (Chapter 2).

  • Efficient collision detection using tile-based techniques (Chapter 3).

  • Designing isometric game maps and collision detection in isometric games (Chapter 4).

  • Pathfinding for maze games, including line-of-sight and A Star (Chapters 5 and 6).

  • The amazing efficiency ...

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